Two 16-year old Palestinian girls imprisoned by Isreal without charges

Andrew Silvera

Includes an Action Alert:

Demand Israel release two girls held without charge
Press release, Addameer, 9 October 2008

Salwa Salah and Sara Siureh were both arrested from their homes in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on 5 June 2008. This is the first time that girls under the age of 18 have been put in administrative detention. On 12 June 2008 they were issued with military administrative detention orders. The orders had been set for four months (Salwa) and five months (Sara). A military court confirmed the orders on 18 June. An appeal hearing also confirmed the orders on 16 July although Sara's sentence was reduced from five to four months.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9885.shtml

Women's Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)

Newsletter October 2008

There are at present about 75 women political prisoners in the Israeli jails: about 35 in Hasharon Prison (Tel Mond), about 35 in Damoon Prison (Carmel Mountain), 1 in Petah Tiqva Detention Center, 3 in Kishon Detention Center (Jalameh) and the rest in several detention centers. http://www.wofpp.org/english/october8.html